Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Subshrubs 0.7–1.5 cm tall, much branched.

Stems: Stems subterete, swollen at nodes, glabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades narrowly lanceolate, 6-10 × 1-1.5 cm. Apex acute to shortly acuminate. Base cuneate to attenuate. Surfaces glabrous. Margins subsinuate. Secondary veins 5-8 on each side of midvein. Petioles 3-10 mm. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Spikes terminal or axillary, 3-12 cm, interrupted, usually in a leafy panicle; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm; bracts triangular, 2-6 × 1-2.5 mm, basal ones longer than calyx then gradually smaller with apical-most ones shorter than calyx, margin ciliate, apex acute; bracteoles elliptic to linear-lanceolate, ca. 3 × 1 mm, margin ciliate, apex acute. Calyx ca. 5 mm, 5-lobed; lobes linear-lanceolate, 3-4 × ca. 0.5 mm, subequal, apex acuminate. Corolla creamy white, 1.2-1.5 cm; tube basally cylindric and ca. 2 mm wide for 8-9 mm; lower lip violet dotted basally, cuneate-obovate, 6-10 mm broad, 3-lobed, lobes oblanceolate and 3-5 × ca. 3.5 mm; upper lip violet blotched, triangular, ca. 7 × 3.5 mm, 2-cleft. Stamens exserted; filaments 3-6 mm, glabrous; anther thecae oblong, ca. 1.2 mm, superposed, lower one spurred at base, upper one muticous. Ovary superior, glabrous; style ca. 1 cm, glabrous; stigma capitate, shortly 2-lobed.

Fruit: Capsules clavate; ca. 1.2 cm.

Ploidy: 2n = 28; 30

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